From the upright love of a God-fearing fiance in the American colonies .....to the drunken assault of a brutishly powerful Scottish lord in his highland lair... ... to the forbidden embrace of a man with royal blood in his veins and intoxication in his touch... ... to final confrontation with a nightmare pursuer high in a tower of evil... Elizabeth Logan could find no escape from the maze she had entered or from the abyss that lay before her fleeing feet.